Yearning for a Patriarchy

You can read the complete article at Crisis Magazine. The introduction follows:

Humans are wired for the structure of masculine authority. We crave that sense of order, and we suffer when we are deprived of it. It’s easier to see in regard to children, probably in large part because we have grown enough from that stage of life that our egos don’t bristle at the suggestion.

Few people, on either side of the political spectrum, deny that children need fathers. Placed against almost every metric of success, children who have their fathers in the home outperform their underprivileged counterparts.

Yet we stop paying attention when those people get older. Apparently, we’ve inferred that the need for the paternal simply ceases. I would posit that this deficit of fathers isn’t just limited to childhood but that, as adults, too many are impoverished of the priestly (fatherly) guidance that is a necessary part of life. We were created needing order and hierarchy.

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